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Alicia Morales stressed that the family use and by pedestrians, cyclists and skaters, organizing various activities would be added

MURCIA NOW proposes that close to motor traffic city streets on specific dates "for petaonal and recreational use" with the aim that residents can make use of these different from the usual way.

Alicia Morales explains that "entire families could go for a walk these streets that one day he would walk without having to be attentive to motor traffic or suffer the pollution and nuisances. Pedestrians, cyclists and skaters share for a few hours, respectfully, using some roads regularly occupied by transportation. in addition, various activities would be organized ".

The municipal formation at the next plenary propose the creation of a working group to design a pilot project, with the presence of municipal technicians and groups and entities other than their own municipal formations.

The spokesman Now Murcia notes that "can be a very interesting experience for the city, since it is an initiative with low cost, rapid deployment and would create a project that never before have enjoyed neighbors the municipality and we believe it would be enriching for citizens and for the city itself. "

Morales stressed that the initiative came to the evidence that "in our cities motor vehicles have been becoming gradually the real stars. The pedestrian has been losing relevance, while public spaces have been reduced to parks, squares and a few pedestrian streets, taking in very difficult change the friendly coexistence with traffic throughout the rest of the city. "

The councilor says that "in this situation, it is essential to recover spaces that are currently exclusive use of motor vehicles, claiming the public space and creating new meeting places. Such recovery of public space for citizenship is an enormously ambitious challenge which would require, for their full achievement of a comprehensive restructuring of the cities that seems very difficult to carry out in practice. what is possible is to apply some measures and implement some projects going on that line make sense to citizen who is the protagonist of the city, and that the gradual recovery of spaces for pedestrians and a different model city "is possible.

Under these premises is the proposal now Murcia, which means that with a specific periodicity meaning and, usually, on holidays, a street or an avenue of the city, different each time, would cut engine traffic during a few hours, allowing full and relaxed use and enjoyment by citizens across the road, ie the road in addition to the sidewalks.

"In order to attract more citizens to this initiative and to transmit the values ​​of the project," adds the mayor, "might be a good idea to celebrate during these days different types of activities. Thus, bicycle races for children, small concerts and other performances, or the celebration of family workshops, these vials would endow a new sense and would make the citizens they collect in a different way ".

Morales stressed that "a cornerstone of the initiative is that it would be open to proposals and participation of different groups in the municipality, to get these days are multidisciplinary and have the greatest possible assistance".

Some cities are already doing similar experiences like Barcelona, ​​with the project 'Sundays of pedestrians', which is closed to traffic from Avenida Diagonal and Paseo de Gracia, offering workshops, reading books, skating , childish games...;

Pamplona, ​​which launched a few months ago the 'Bizikalea Project', in which the third Sunday of each month a different street is closed to motorized traffic, programming activities;

Paris, whose 'pedestrian Sunday on the Champs Elysees' supposed one Sunday a month the most emblematic avenue in the French capital is accessible only to bicycles and pedestrians;

or Mexico City, with its 'Ciclotón', the last Sunday of every month closed to motor traffic 32 kilometers from the city, including the main downtown boulevard, promoting physical activation, health and recreation.

A prominent case is that of São Paulo (Brazil), which has a 3.4 kilometer elevated highway that passes just five meters from the surrounding buildings, using it each day between 70,000 and 120,000 vehicles.

As is so close to the buildings and has so much traffic, buildings have been losing value and neighborhoods that crosses have been degraded.

"However," said the Councillor, "since 1989 is closed to motor traffic on Sundays, and from 2015 also on Saturday afternoon. In those days, cars are replaced by children playing, bicycles, music groups and theater, vendors corn or coconut ice skaters skatistas, DJs, street vendors ... and free Wi-Fi. "

Source: Ahora Murcia